ABSTRACT
Since the declaration of the pandemic condition by WHO on March 11, 2020, it has caused various responses
from people throughout the world. The spread of the virus is very fast, wide and mass causing more cases and
affecting not only physical condition but also psychosocial condition. Various psychosocial problems are
experienced by the community related to pandemic conditions. The purpose of this paper was to describe the
management of mental health care and psychosocial support for the handling of psychosocial problems
experienced by the community during Covid-19 pandemic. The study used quantitative methods of pretest posttest
experiment without control group, by providing mental health and psychosocial support. The research
sample of 95 respondents was taken by total sampling. The package of activities provided: Mental and
Psychosocial Health Support (DKJPS) for Healthy People, DKJPS for Travel Players, DKJPS in Close Contact,
DKJPS in Probable Cases, DKJPS in Covid-19 Confirmed Cases and DKJPS for Vulnerable Groups. Therapy
was given to 95 respondents (22 volunteers, 51 volunteer nuclear families and 22 volunteer assisted families)
using the 29-question of Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) measurement tool. The results showed that the
provision of mental health and psychosocial support had an impact on reducing respondents' psychosocial
problems, in the pretest measurement as much as 6.3% of respondents experienced psychosocial problems to
0% of respondents on the post-test. The analysis was carried out using the Wilcoxon test and obtained a p-value
of 0.014 (<0.05), which means that there is an effect of mental health and psychosocial support on the handling
of psychosocial problems.
Keywords: covid-19 pandemic; mental and psychosocial health support; psychosocial problems